Installation

Installation

EMQX binary packages are released on below operating systems:

CentOS 7 (EL7)
CentOS 8 (EL8)
Raspbian 10
Debian 9
Debian 10
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 20.04
macOS 10
Windows Server 2019

Package Installation (Linux)

Download EMQX package emqx.com (opens new window) or Github (opens new window)

Install EMQX Broker:

RPM package:

$ sudo yum install emqx-cenots7-v4.0.0.x86_64.rpm

DEB package:

# for ubuntu/debian
$ sudo apt install ./emqx-ubuntu18.04-v4.0.0_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt install ./emqx-debian10-v4.0.0_amd64.deb

Start EMQX Broker

quick start

$ emqx start
emqx 4.0.0 is started successfully!
$ emqx_ctl status
Node 'emqx@127.0.0.1' is started
emqx v4.0.0 is running

systemctl
```
$ sudo systemctl start emqx
```
start as service
```
$ sudo service emqx start
```

Stop EMQX Broker
```
$ emqx stop
ok
```

Uninstall EMQX Broker

DEB:
```
$ sudo apt remove --purge emqx
```
RPM:
```
$ sudo yum remove emqx
```

ZIP (Linux、MacOS、Windows)

WARING

ZIP packages are released for quick testing and hot-beam upgrade. Do NOT install zip packages for production unless you know how to manually resolve all the runtime dependencies.

Download EMQX zip package from emqx.com (opens new window) or Github (opens new window).
Unzip the installation file:
```
$ unzip emqx-ubuntu18.04-v4.0.0.zip
```

Start EMQX Broker

$ ./bin/emqx start
emqx 4.0.0 is started successfully!
$ ./bin/emqx_ctl status
Node 'emqx@127.0.0.1' is started
emqx v4.0.0 is running

Stop EMQX Broker
```
$ ./bin/emqx stop
ok
```
Remove EMQX Broker

Simply delete the EMQX Broker directory

Running EMQX in Docker (Contain a simple docker-compose cluster)

Run a single container

Get docker image
- From Docker Hub (opens new window)
```
$ docker pull emqx/emqx:v4.0.0
```

Start docker container

$ docker run -d --name emqx -p 1883:1883 -p 8081:8081 -p 8083:8083 -p 8883:8883 -p 8084:8084 -p 18083:18083 emqx/emqx:v4.0.0

Create a simple static cluster by docker-compose

Create docker-compose.yaml file

version: '3'
services:
  emqx1:
    image: emqx/emqx:v4.0.0
    environment:
    - "EMQX_NAME=emqx"
    - "EMQX_HOST=node1.emqx.io"
    - "EMQX_CLUSTER__DISCOVERY=static"
    - "EMQX_CLUSTER__STATIC__SEEDS=emqx@node1.emqx.io, emqx@node2.emqx.io"
    - "EMQX_ZONE__EXTERNAL__RETRY_INTERVAL=2s"
    - "EMQX_MQTT__MAX_TOPIC_ALIAS=10"
    volumes:
        - ./tmp/emqx.lic:/opt/emqx/etc/emqx.lic
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "/opt/emqx/bin/emqx_ctl", "status"]
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 25s
      retries: 5
    networks:
      emqx-bridge:
        aliases:
        - node1.emqx.io
  emqx2:
    image: emqx/emqx:v4.0.0
    environment:
    - "EMQX_NAME=emqx"
    - "EMQX_HOST=node2.emqx.io"
    - "EMQX_CLUSTER__DISCOVERY=static"
    - "EMQX_CLUSTER__STATIC__SEEDS=emqx@node1.emqx.io, emqx@node2.emqx.io"
    - "EMQX_ZONE__EXTERNAL__RETRY_INTERVAL=2s"
    - "EMQX_MQTT__MAX_TOPIC_ALIAS=10"
    volumes:
        - ./tmp/emqx.lic:/opt/emqx/etc/emqx.lic
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "/opt/emqx/bin/emqx_ctl", "status"]
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 25s
      retries: 5
    networks:
      emqx-bridge:
        aliases:
        - node2.emqx.io
  client:
    image: python:3.7.2-alpine3.9
    depends_on:
      - emqx1
      - emqx2
    tty: true
    networks:
        emqx-bridge:
networks:
  emqx-bridge:
    driver: bridge

Start docker-compose cluster
```
$ docker-compose -p my_emqx up -d
```

View cluster

$ docker exec -it my_emqx_emqx1_1 sh -c "emqx_ctl cluster status"
Cluster status: #{running_nodes => ['emqx@node1.emqx.io','emqx@node2.emqx.io'],
                  stopped_nodes => []}

For more information about EMQX Broker Docker, please visit Docker Hub (opens new window) or Github (opens new window)

Install and cluster via Helm (K8S、K3S)

Add helm repository

$ helm repo add emqx https://repos.emqx.io/charts
$ helm repo update

Query EMQX Broker

helm search repo emqx
NAME         CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
emqx/emqx    v4.0.0        v4.0.0      A Helm chart for EMQX
emqx/emqx-ee v4.0.0        v4.0.0      A Helm chart for EMQX
emqx/kuiper  0.1.1         0.1.1       A lightweight IoT edge analytic software

Start EMQX Broker cluster

$ helm install my-emqx emqx/emqx

View EMQX Broker cluster situation

$ kubectl get pods
NAME       READY  STATUS             RESTARTS  AGE
my-emqx-0  1/1     Running   0          56s
my-emqx-1  1/1     Running   0          40s
my-emqx-2  1/1     Running   0          21s
$ kubectl exec -it my-emqx-0 -- emqx_ctl cluster status
Cluster status: #{running_nodes =>
                      ['my-emqx@my-emqx-0.my-emqx-headless.default.svc.cluster.local',
                       'my-emqx@my-emqx-1.my-emqx-headless.default.svc.cluster.local',
                       'my-emqx@my-emqx-2.my-emqx-headless.default.svc.cluster.local'],
                  stopped_nodes => []}

Source code compilation and installation

Get the source code

$ git clone https://github.com/emqx/emqx.git

Checkout to latest tag

$ cd emqx
$ git checkout $(git describe --abbrev=0 --tags)

Compile

$ make

Start EMQX Broker

$ cd _build/emqx/rel/emqx
$ ./bin/emqx start
EMQX Broker 4.3-beta.1 is started successfully!
$ ./bin/emqx_ctl status
Node 'emqx@127.0.0.1' is started
emqx 4.3-beta.1 is running